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| May 29, 2007 | Tuesday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 12, 1428 |
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CIA keeps an eye on stock markets: ‘War against terror’
NEW YORK, May 28: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is regularly briefing the US Securities and Exchange Commission (which oversees American stock and other capital markets) about activities of terrorists and... 
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US dismantles anti-Iran body
WASHINGTON, May 28: The Bush administration has quietly dismantled a special committee established last year to coordinate aggressive actions against Iran and Syria, the State Department said....
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Gunbattles erupt at besieged Lebanon camp
NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon), May 28: Sporadic gunbattles and sniper fire erupted on Monday as Lebanese troops backed by tanks kept up a siege of Islamist fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp....
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Nine killed as Afghan police clash with protesters
SHIBERGHAN (Afghanistan), May 28: Nine people were killed and 32 wounded in northern Afghanistan on Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest by a warlord’s supporters, a doctor and witnesses said....
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Turkish MPs fight during reforms debate
ANKARA, May 28: Turkish lawmakers traded blows on Monday during a stormy parliamentary debate on constitutional changes that would see the president elected by popular vote in a bid to resolve recent political turmoil....
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Pipeline deal signed to divert Malacca Strait oil
KUALA LUMPUR, May 28: Malaysian, Indonesian and Saudi Arabian firms on Monday signed agreements for construction of a pipeline that aims to divert 20 per cent of oil flowing through the strategic Malacca Strait, the project owner said....
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Peretz ousted as Labour leader
TEL AVIV, May 28: Israeli Defence Minister Amir Peretz was ousted as Labour party chief on Monday, in a key primary which threatens to rattle Prime Minister Ehud Olmert''s ruling coalition, television polls showed....
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Passport to a burgeoning virtual world
LONDON: “The futurist in me says that the real world will become like a museum very soon.” These are the words of Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life....
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Immigrants not the biggest threat to US
WASHINGTON: Of the many infuriating assertions in the immigration debate, perhaps this one takes top prize: that we have to keep illegal immigrants out for the sake of our security....
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Iraq-like policy will fail in Afghanistan too
LONDON: The international community is in danger of repeating in Afghanistan the mistakes made in Iraq. Millions of Afghans have seen little material improvement in their lives since 2001, and most still live in desperate poverty....
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Security row in Ukraine led to compromise
KIEV: Ukraine’s rival leaders scared themselves into agreeing a compromise after a risky war of nerves for control of the security forces in this ex-Soviet republic, analysts said....
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Jeddah hopes to have a new look
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is hoping that the United Nations will step in to help save the historic old city of Jeddah, whose unique Red Sea architecture is in danger of disappearing.The...
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Reviving the evil empire would be a tragedy
LOS ANGELES: There is no such thing as the future. There are only futures, plural. Historians are supposed to confine themselves to the study of the past, but by drawing analogies between yesterday and today, they can sometimes suggest plausible tomorrows....
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India’s economy to overtake Japan’s
TOKYO: India''s economy will overtake the Japanese economy by 2025 to rank third in the world after the United States and China in terms of purchasing power parity, Japan''s central bank chief predicted on Monday....
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US N-accord negotiator due in Delhi on 31st
NEW DELHI: The top US negotiator in a landmark deal to allow civilian nuclear technology sales to India arrives in New Delhi this week to try and resolve nagging differences over the pact, officials said on Monday....
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Apology tendered for insulting Sikh guru
NEW DELHI: A religious sect has apologised for advertisments showing its leader dressed as a revered Sikh guru, which triggered violence in India''s Punjab state, reports said Monday....
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Lanka blast claims seven lives
COLOMBO: At least seven civilians were killed and 31 other people wounded on Monday in a powerful bomb blast near an air force base just outside Sri Lanka’s capital, police and hospital sources said....
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Jihad suspects held in Spain
MADRID: Spanish police arrested at least 14 suspected Islamist militants in a series of nationwide anti-terrorist raids on Monday, a spokesman said. Officers arrested 11 people in the Catalonia region, two...
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